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H. B. RUXBURGH. APPLIANCE FOB PACKING BOTTLES, ARTICLES 0F GLASS, 8w.

(Application filed May 3, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES ATENT FFICE.

HENRY BOWIE ROXBURGH, OF SI-IAWVLANDS, SCOTLAND.

APPLIANCE FOR PACKING BOTTLES, ARTICLES OF GLASS, 8L0.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 613,529, dated November 1, 1898.

Application filed May 3, 1898. Serial No. 679,582. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BOWIE Rox- BURGH, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and a resident of Shawlands, in the county of Renfrew, Scotland, have invented certain Improvements in Appliances for Packing Bottles or other Vessels or Articles of Glass or other Fragile Material, (for which I have applied for a British patent, application No. 23,842, dated October 16, 1897,) of which the following is a specification.

My said invention has for its object the packing of bottles and other fragile articles in an improved manner and so that while they are prevented from being in immediate contact or striking each other a number of them are made to occupy an extremely small space, and thereby save expense in carriage or freight.

In carrying out my invention in the case of single bottles, for example, the bottles may each be provided with separate packings to be afterward combined in any number, or sets of two or more bottles may be arranged together with combined packings.

In order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same may be properly understood, I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings to be hereinafter referred to and showing, by way of example, the application of my combined packing to three bottles.

Figure 1 on the accompanying sheet of drawings is a plan, and Fig. 2 an elevation,

showing my improved packing as applied to three bottles. Fig. 3 is a plan showing part of my improved packing without the bottles.

As shown in the drawings, the part of the improved packing for the body part of the bottles A consists of two rings or loops B, of cord, string, "tape, or other suitable soft or compressible material, large enough for the three bottles A, the loops B being crossed at suitable parts and fastened together at these parts by small metal clips 0, so as to form three separate openings, the three bottles being entered one into each of the openings thus formed. A ring or collar D for the bottle-necks E is also provided. This ring or collar D consists, by preference, of a piece of cocoanut fiber or other suitable woven fabric made with slits or openings at suitable parts, into which the bottle-necks E are inserted, the fabric being made broad enough to prevent the ends of the necks E of one row of bottles Afrom touching the shoulders and necks of a reversed row of bottles, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2, or the rings for the bottle-necks may be similar to the packing for the body part of the bottles, the parts crossed over and fastened with the clips be tween any two bottle-necks serving to keep the reversed bottle-neck end of the bottle shoulders.

The parts of a loop between two bottles may be fixed together or connected simply by a half-twist instead of metal clips, or such parts may be fixed together or connected in any convenient way and with or without a half twist. The several rings of a bottle maybe connected by cords or bands arranged lengthwise of the bottle, and when the packings are formed from loops made with two or more openings, as described, there may be any sufficient number of the lengthwise connections for each set of combined bottles.

What I claim as my invention is- Appliances for packing bottles or other vessels or articles of glass or other fragile materialconsisting of rings orloops of cord, string, tape, or other suitable soft or compressible material of a size to fit tightly on the body part of one, two, or more of the articles, the said loops being crossed for two or more articles and fastened with clips or otherwise to form separate openings for the several articles, in combination with a broad collar or ring of woven material with openings for the necks of the articles substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed m name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY BOWIE ROXBURGH. 

